Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'Fading southern belle Blanche Du...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley Kowalski. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of happiness.Tennessee Williams's steamy and shocking landmark drama, recreated as the immortal film starring Marlon Brando, is one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century.Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), and Small Craft Warnings (1972).If you enjoyed A Streetcar Named Desire, you might like The Glass Menagerie, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Lyrical and poetic and human and heartbreaking and memorable and funny'Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather'One of the greatest American plays'Observer
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a s...
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963; revised 1964) and Small Craft Warnings (1972).
Tennessee关于nice people的定义让人动容，他说他自己ashamed to say， 其实就是最简单纯粹的，反对过多阐释，反对脸谱化，将戏剧还原于最原本的生活冲突。这本书是我最近最无法自拔的一本，世间有很多看似不合理的存在，思考如何人性地对待这种存在，并且尽可能融洽地与之共存，在其宿命性的自我毁灭之前如何去做点什么，永远是我脑中长久以来遭反复证明又不得要领的一个命题。
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche tries desperately to save her sister Stella out of her unhappy marriage, while Stella believes she is not in anything she wants to get out of (textbook* pp187). Indeed, in her opinion, she lives a fairly decent life with...
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1 有用 SWX 2022-03-27 11:49:51
心碎的句子一段接一段。Blanche这个角色应该是梦露来演啊……“I don’t want realism. I want magic! ” 简直就是梦露。费雯丽还是太正派太邻家女孩了。
0 有用 fre5h 2010-05-21 22:12:10
English literature的書= =..
1 有用 Grass_n_Cloud 2022-04-23 05:56:30
美国南方文学最显著的特点就是缩词、俚语、不得不爆的粗口，和炸裂的嗓门。
1 有用 timelessclock 2011-11-20 13:25:23
原作的感觉比电影好多了！！！大概是因为少了嘈杂尖锐的对话声→_→ Tennessee对两种style的对白的驾驭，细读之下令人着迷，说是复调一般的感觉也不为过！还有包括音乐符号在内的各种象征也是相当有趣的
2 有用 K 2013-03-16 20:50:05
Tennessee关于nice people的定义让人动容，他说他自己ashamed to say， 其实就是最简单纯粹的，反对过多阐释，反对脸谱化，将戏剧还原于最原本的生活冲突。这本书是我最近最无法自拔的一本，世间有很多看似不合理的存在，思考如何人性地对待这种存在，并且尽可能融洽地与之共存，在其宿命性的自我毁灭之前如何去做点什么，永远是我脑中长久以来遭反复证明又不得要领的一个命题。